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GTK+ 3.0.0 Tool-Kit Officially Released!

02-10-2011, 05:30 PM

Phoronix: GTK+ 3.0.0 Tool-Kit Officially Released!

It's been a little more than a week since the final release of GTK2 was made available and at that time GTK+ 3.0 was nearing its official release. Today, after being in development for years, GTK+ 3.0 has been officially released...

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Is it API/ABI compatible with GTK2 or not?
If it isn't, I think It'll take some time (like python3) to be adopted by a large amount of distros (currently, for instance, only a few apps use python3 instead of python2 and most distros still don't have python3 in their official repos).

About the project, I hope this release to be at least as successful as GTK2 was, but personally, I prefer Qt much more.

Cheers

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Is it API/ABI compatible with GTK2 or not?
If it isn't, I think It'll take some time (like python3) to be adopted by a large amount of distros (currently, for instance, only a few apps use python3 instead of python2 and most distros still don't have python3 in their official repos).

It's a major version change, so no, it is not. It's meant to be installed alongside gtk2.
Upgrading, even having code compatible with both GTK2 and 3 should be possible.

While i also would choose qt for any new project, many existing GTK projects could still upgrade (eventually), so there is still a big gain however you look at it.